National Security Advisor Ajit Doval is in Beijing for critical boundary talks with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, the 25th round of Special Representatives' discussions. This visit gains importance with the anticipated attendance of Chinese President Xi Jinping at the BRICS summit in India, highlighting the delicate state of India-China relations. The talks address the long-standing border dispute, a complex issue spanning thousands of kilometers, amidst recent allegations of Chinese incursions in Arunachal Pradesh, which India has refuted. Despite underlying tensions, both nations have expressed a commitment to maintaining peace and tranquility along the Line of Actual Control, underscoring the importance of border stability for overall bilateral ties.

National Security Advisor Ajit Doval is in Beijing for critical boundary talks with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, the 25th round of Special Representatives' discussions. This visit gains importance with the anticipated attendance of Chinese President Xi Jinping at the BRICS summit in India, highlighting the delicate state of India-China relations. The talks address the long-standing border dispute, a complex issue spanning thousands of kilometers, amidst recent allegations of Chinese incursions in Arunachal Pradesh, which India has refuted. Despite underlying tensions, both nations have expressed a commitment to maintaining peace and tranquility along the Line of Actual Control, underscoring the importance of border stability for overall bilateral ties.

National Security Advisor Ajit Doval is in Beijing for critical boundary talks with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, the 25th round of Special Representatives' discussions. This visit gains importance with the anticipated attendance of Chinese President Xi Jinping at the BRICS summit in India, highlighting the delicate state of India-China relations. The talks address the long-standing border dispute, a complex issue spanning thousands of kilometers, amidst recent allegations of Chinese incursions in Arunachal Pradesh, which India has refuted. Despite underlying tensions, both nations have expressed a commitment to maintaining peace and tranquility along the Line of Actual Control, underscoring the importance of border stability for overall bilateral ties.

National Security Advisor Ajit Doval is scheduled to arrive in Beijing on Monday for talks on boundary issues, according to reports. Doval’s visit assumes significance in the wake of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s potential visit to India to attend the BRICS summit in New Delhi on September 12-13.

Doval will take part in the India-China Special Representatives (SR) talks on the boundary issue with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi. This is the 25th round of SR talks on Tuesday.

The boundary talks mechanism was established in 2003 to comprehensively address the vexed boundary dispute of the India-China border spanning 3,488 km. Under this arrangement, senior representatives from both countries hold direct talks on complex border issues.

The visit also comes amid allegations that China denied the Indian army access to key patrolling points and encroached on land in the Indian border state of Arunachal Pradesh. However, India dismissed reports of Chinese intrusion near Taksing in Arunachal Pradesh, with lawmaker Kiren Rijiju denying a 60-kilometre incursion.

“If someone says that China has come in 60 kilometres (inside India), that is not correct, and one shouldn’t say it,” Rijiju, who represents Arunachal Pradesh in parliament, said in a video posted on X. “So, it is not like they came and captured our village,” he added.

China's Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said on August 12 that the China-India border situation is "generally stable at the moment".

Guo added that China and India held the 36th meeting of the Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination on China-India Border Affair. "The two sides agreed to maintain communication via diplomatic and military channels and jointly uphold peace and tranquility in the border areas", he said.

External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal on August 11 said that India considers matters relating to border areas with China as "most serious" and asserted that maintaining peace and tranquillity along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) is of "utmost importance", as the state of the frontier will govern the overall trajectory of bilateral ties.

Earlier, New Delhi also trashed Beijing's criticism of its decision to formally identify 27 places and geographical features in Arunachal Pradesh by their standard names, emphasising that the state is an "inalienable and integral" part of India and nothing can change this "indisputable reality".

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